Biography Theodore Dillaway

Theodore Dillaway was an American painter born in 1874 in Boston, Massachusetts. Known for his landscape paintings, he was also a popular educator in the Northeast and an accomplished musician.

Dillaway started his career as the supervisor of drawing in the public schools of Buffalo, New York. In 1910, he moved to Boston to fill the position of director of drawing and manual training for the city's schools. Dillaway participated in the Boston Symphony Orchestra as a flutist and also gave performances in Buffalo, where he still had many friends. Dillaway remained at his post until the early 1920s, when he became the superintendent of art in the public schools of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he would remain
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